Advanced Occupational Therapist
WILTSHIRE COUNCIL, Walcot West, Swindon
Advanced Occupational Therapist
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WILTSHIRE COUNCIL, Walcot West, Swindon
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted today, 12 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 1881a0403224438d818c5f236d0a7ae5
Full Job Description
Are you a highly experienced Occupational Therapist driven by a profound passion to instigate positive transformations in people's lives and restore confidence?
Elevate your career by becoming a pivotal member of our Reablement Team, making a positive impact on individuals' lives post-hospitalisation, rebuilding confidence, and enhancing daily activity skills. Our Advanced Occupational Therapists provide professional support, train team members, and act as expert advisors on equipment and decision-making.
As an Advanced Occupational Therapist, you'll manage a challenging and diverse caseload, conduct strengths-based OT assessments, and apply person centred principles to promote well-being and positive risk-taking. You will provide professional support and training on occupational therapy matters to Occupational Therapists, and other team members. You will manage a busy caseload of complex work undertaking strengths based occupational therapy assessments using person centred practice principles to assess, support plan and review with the aim of promoting well-being and positive risk taking.
You will collaborate with healthcare professionals and social workers for optimal outcomes, conducting assessments, setting goals, creating personalised reablement plans and providing supervision and support for complex cases within your team. Acting as an expert advisor to other team members on the provision of bespoke equipment, evaluating reasoning of occupational therapists and making decisions with regard to best value, increasing independence and reducing risk.
If you have over 3 years of post-qualification experience, hold a full UK Driver's license, understand occupational therapy laws and are ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you! Join us in creating success stories of individuals in Wiltshire reclaiming their independence., Disability Confident
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